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Ethereum has hit a new milestone as earlier today the cryptocurrency’s total supply crossed the 100 million mark: this means there is more than 100 million Ether in circulation. Unlike Bitcoin which has its supply capped at 21 million, Ethereum has opted not to set an upper limit on its total coin supply. This has raised concerns about […]

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, creators of cryptocurrency trading platform Gemini, have received permission from New York regulators to launch their own stablecoin, according to a post on Gemini’s Medium Monday, September 10. The so-called Gemini dollar now has the backing of the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). The brothers’ Medium post describes the coins being backed by U.S. dollars that […]

Chinese traders are using virtual private networks (VPNs) as a major tool to circumvent the ongoing government crackdown on cryptocurrency trading, local media outlet South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported September 8. According to SCMP, referencing reports from Beijing-affiliated Shanghai Securities Times, traders have begun leveraging stablecoin Tether (USDT) as a means of entering and exiting cryptocurrency markets. Combined with a VPN, […]

Sunday, September 9: following the bloodbath after this week’s market crash, Bitcoin’s (BTC) price spiked sharply today. Altcoins have mostly followed suit, making markets a mix of red and green, as data from Coin360 data shows. Market visualization from Coin360 Bitcoin (BTC) jumped over 3 percent in under an hour today, proceeding to trade sideways just under the $6,400 […]

Five payments providers in Europe and Asia are set to use Ripple’s xVia technology, the distributed ledger startup announced Thursday. The company’s new customers include U.K.-based firms FairFX, RationalFX and Exchange4Free, in addition to peer-to-peer currency exchange platform MoneyMatch in Malaysia and settlements company UniPay from the Republic of Georgia. Using Ripple’s xVia tech will […]

Bitcoin cash’s next software upgrade may be even more ambitious than its first – and that’s no small feat given last time it broke off from bitcoin in acrimonious fashion. In fact, the update, announced in November and slated for May 15, packages together a number of features that all seem about helping the network process more transactions […]

A new Chinese blockchain fund has $1.6 billion available to invest in innovative startups – 30 percent of which is backed by a city government. Dubbed Xiong’An Global Blockchain Innovation Fund, the new initiative was announced Monday at the opening ceremony of a new Blockchain Industrial Park in Hangzhou – a Chinese city noted for […]

Twitter will begin blocking cryptocurrency-related ads tomorrow, the company confirmed in a statement to The Verge. The move follows other social media platforms like Reddit back in 2016, and more recently, Facebook and Google, which have already banned cryptocurrency ads. “We are committed to ensuring the safety of the Twitter community. As such, we have […]